Re: compiling ports to packages on fast system, installing on slower one

2006-06-08 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/8/06, Andrey Slusar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 16:56:25 -0400, Dave wrote: Hello, I was wondering if this was possible? I've got a box that i'd like to install the latest gnome 2.14 desktop on, as well as some very intense apps to build. I would like to compile the

Re: Correct CPUTYPE= for Intel Celeron 2.50GHz (2500.10-MHz 686-class CPU)

2006-06-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/9/06, Frank Steinborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, can someone tell what the right choice for CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf is for that CPU? CPUTYPE?=pentium2 CFLAGS+= -mtune=prescott COPTFLAGS+= -mtune=prescott I find that this produces faster, and safer, code then -march=pentium4,

Re: Correct CPUTYPE= for Intel Celeron 2.50GHz (2500.10-MHz 686-class CPU)

2006-06-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/9/06, Frank Steinborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, can someone tell what the right choice for CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf is for that CPU? CPUTYPE?=pentium2 CFLAGS+= -mtune=prescott COPTFLAGS+= -mtune=prescott I find that this produces faster, and safer, code then -march=pentium4,

Re: ports upgrade question

2006-06-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a newbie running 6.1 stable and I have what may be several simple questions: What exactly is happening when I run make index make readmes after I upgrade my ports tree? Why aren't the indexes and readmes made when we run cvsup

Re: ports upgrade question

2006-06-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/10/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a newbie running 6.1 stable and I have what may be several simple questions: What exactly is happening when I run make index make readmes after I upgrade my ports tree? Why aren't

Re: FreeBSD on laptops

2006-06-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/10/06, Derek Jander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I'm considering to migrate my HP nx9030 from Windows XP Professional to *nix OS since almost all the servers I'm administering right now have some Linux flavour installed. I was about to install fedora when some firend told me about

Re: upgrading mysql-server

2006-06-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/8/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, my nightly security report says that I should upgrade mysql-server. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# pkg_info | grep mysql-server mysql-server-4.1.15 Multithreaded SQL database (server) But, what port does this correspond to? Simply cd into

Re: Long Shot - MSN Group chat room access

2006-06-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/10/06, dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is a long shot but my GF want's know if it's possible to get into an MSN groups chat room using FreeBSD and Firefox (or any other browser. Currently, she's getting a canned apology page saying:

Re: Long Shot - MSN Group chat room access

2006-06-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/10/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/10/06, dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is a long shot but my GF want's know if it's possible to get into an MSN groups chat room using FreeBSD and Firefox (or any other browser. Currently, she's getting a canned apology page

Re: FreeBSD on laptops

2006-06-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/10/06, Sergio Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you looking for a first time BSD desktop (KDE) then try PC-BSD. and If you can't get that to run (PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD) give SuSE 10.1 a go. Good option I tried... fast easy... the version is still 5.X ... but is good... it is

Re: Long Shot - MSN Group chat room access

2006-06-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/11/06, dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:49, Nikolas Britton wrote: I forgot about Konqueror :-) I just tried spoofing msn chat with Konqueror and it worked, well I got to the front page at least but I don't have an msn account so I can't test it any further

Re: Participating in FreeBSD development

2006-06-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/11/06, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My name is Martin Caverly. I am interesting in participating into development of FreeBSD, but, don't know where and how to start. Would you kindly guide or give Martin information about participating into development of FreeBSD? Thanks in advance

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/12/06, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/11/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * IIRC NetBSD was a fork of FreeBSD that's an interesting theory when you consider that the first netbsd release came out 8 months before the first freebsd release. Yes as many others have

Re: hardware raid suggestions

2006-06-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a dell power edge 600sc. (I realize thats getting old) I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-release. I'm looking for suggestions for a good raid setup both controls and disks. I'd like to use hardware raid and not software. I'm more

Re: seeking advice on building jdk15

2006-06-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/12/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi gang. I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE and want to run OpenOffice but I discovered I needed Java first. I updated my port tree and followed the port instructions to manually download the ingredients from Sun and store them in /usr/ports/distfiles:

Re: hardware raid suggestions

2006-06-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a dell power edge 600sc. (I realize thats getting old) I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-release. I'm looking for suggestions for a good raid setup

Re: seeking advice on building jdk15

2006-06-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/12/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I succeeded in building jdk14 instead. My manual downloads were: j2sdk-1_4_2_11-linux-i586.bin j2sdk-1_4_2-bin-scsl.zip j2sdk-1_4_2-src-scsl.zip bsd-jdk14-patches-8.tar.gz The port instructions added an extra step. It had me mount a simulated linux

Re: installing openoffice by package

2006-06-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/13/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried unsuccessfully to build OpenOffice 2.0 on my 5.4 box. Never had enoudh space in /usr... I decided to install by package: # pkg_add -r openoffice.org It tried to install version 1.1.5... Anyway, trying to start it gives errors: #

Re: installing openoffice by package

2006-06-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/13/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/13/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried unsuccessfully to build OpenOffice 2.0 on my 5.4 box. Never had enoudh space in /usr... I decided to install by package: # pkg_add -r openoffice.org It tried to install version 1.1.5

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/12/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, FreeBSD is #1 to me because it is the most painless operating system I've ever used... Ignoring the 5.x installer. Never used pre-5.x -Jim What do you mean 5.x? FreeBSD never made 5.x. They went straight from 4 to 6 like everybody

Re: installing openoffice by package

2006-06-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/13/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/13/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried unsuccessfully to build OpenOffice 2.0 on my 5.4 box. Never had enoudh space in /usr... I decided to install by package: # pkg_add -r

Re: installing openoffice by package

2006-06-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/13/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, I said that I do not have enough space to build this beast. The thing needs ~9 GB under /usr and I just don't have that. du -h reports my work directory for OOo2 is only 6 GB. If you install and clean up the dependencies and distfiles before

top

2006-06-14 Thread Nikolas Britton
What do all these things mean, they are from the STATE column in top?: bo_wwa biowr *proce getblk RUN select drainv *Giant nanslp pause wait kserel ttyin -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___

Re: Newbie install question about disks

2006-06-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/15/06, DSA - JCR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I am installing a new and all Freebsd system (no other OS in it). The goal is to have a NFS for a network that has 2x200Gb in RAID 1 disks for data. It has 3 disks: - 80Gb Seagate IDE for FreeBSD OS alone - 2xSATA Seagate 200Gb disks in

Re: X ATI driver?

2006-06-17 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/17/06, Walt Pawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an old box I've been messing with. I had it running X on FreeBSD 5.3, seemingly well enough. I decided to move to 6.1, installed more RAM, a bigger hard disk and a CD-RW drive that can see CD-Rs (unlike the original old SCSI CD drive) and

Re: X ATI driver?

2006-06-17 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/17/06, Walt Pawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:42 AM -0500 6/17/06, Nikolas Britton wrote: What kind of ATI card is this? There's a label on what's probably an E-PROM that says PCI MACH32 113-23000-110 (C) 1995 Wow thats old!!! Get a new video card. FWIW: the card worked

Re: I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server; recommendations?

2006-06-17 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/17/06, Dan Bikle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server. Do you have any recommendations for some vendors? I could go buy some commodity hardware and do the install myself but I seem to have bad luck with hands-on type tasks. I'm not picky about CPU; Intel or

Re: AC97 sound driver

2006-06-17 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/17/06, DSA - JCR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all at this marvellous list of this marvellous OS !! ;D I am installing a new FreeBSD box and all is ok less the sound car. This is an MSI 945P Neo Platinum mainboarda with the sound chipset in it: I have installed FreeBSD 6.1 amd64 (is EM64T

Re: I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server; recommendations?

2006-06-19 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/19/06, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-06-19 06:04, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-06-19 12:33, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 5.3 release was clearly marked as a developer preview release No,

make fetchindex question

2006-06-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
Can make fetchindex fetch old (say 06/12/2006 00:00:00UTC) index files? or will I need to run make index? -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: make fetchindex question

2006-06-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/20/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can make fetchindex fetch old (say 06/12/2006 00:00:00UTC) index files? or will I need to run make index? Never mind, it was faster to make index then wait for a reply. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/20/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/06/06 Andy Reitz said: I believe that ia64 refers to the Itanium port of FreeBSD, and I'm not sure of the i386 version will install on Itanium. Are you referring to the AMD64/EMT-64 port of FreeBSD? It's a 64-bit P4. My i386 5.4

Re: make buildkernel ERROR ?Why?

2006-06-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/21/06, Jordi Pavon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-06-21 13:23, Jordi Pavon wrote: Hi, this is my first time I customize my kernel. I'm working with Freebsd 6.0, I made a make buildkernel KERNELCONF=ALBABRAIN, and I get this error: ... cc -c

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/21/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 2:24 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/21/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/06/06 Nikolas Britton said: IA64 = Itanium, Itanium2 = FreeBSD/ia64 EM64T = Intel CPUs with AMD64 (P4, Xeon, etc.) = FreeBSD/amd64 AMD64 = Opteron, Athlon 64, Turion 64, Sempron 64 = FreeBSD/amd64 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/21/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/06/06 Nikolas Britton said: IA64 = Itanium, Itanium2 = FreeBSD/ia64 EM64T = Intel CPUs with AMD64 (P4, Xeon, etc.) = FreeBSD/amd64 AMD64 = Opteron, Athlon 64, Turion 64, Sempron 64 = FreeBSD/amd64 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/21/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/21/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 2

Re: Any generic (non-wm-specific) audio players?

2006-06-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/21/06, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would probably save weeks trying to turn FBSD into the kind of Desktop or window-manager platform I want by just using my Ubuntu platform. I'm still stickng with CTWM. On my Ubuntu servers there is

Re: Any generic (non-wm-specific) audio players?

2006-06-22 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/22/06, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 05:51:32PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/21/06, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would probably save weeks trying to turn FBSD into the kind of Desktop or window-manager platform I want by just

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-22 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/22/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jun 22, 2006, at 11:55 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: not only do I like the SAS drives (4 in a 1U rack so that I can use RAID1+0) What drives are they? There is nothing in the

Cloning Drives from a RAID Array?

2006-06-22 Thread Nikolas Britton
If I clone a drive and then put the new cloned drive into the array will the array continue working without a rebuild? 1. Shutdown server/array. 2. Pull drive to be cloned from array. 3. Clone drive using another computer with: 'dd if=/dev/disk1 of=/dev/disk2 bs=8m'. 4. Insert

Re: RAID online capacity expansion

2006-06-22 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/20/06, Josh Endries [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Has anyone out there successfully done an online expansion of a RAID array in FreeBSD? I've done it twice, both times successfully, and I'm about to do it again. How is it done and with what hardware did it work? From what I can

Re: Any generic (non-wm-specific) audio players?

2006-06-22 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/22/06, Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Gary Kline wrote: ... Does xmms play streams? I'm not sure about xmms and streams, never having tried it. So I've just been playing with this, and it seems to work like Nikolas' description of cplay: download the playlist

help with 'tar|rsh tar'

2006-06-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
I need to backup the /data directory on hostA to /data on hostB, about 1TB of data on a gigabit link. Right now I'm using scp but the handshake latency and ssh overhead is killing me. I've looked at many examples of tar|rsh tar and I can't figure it out, most of the examples on the net look like

Re: help with 'tar|rsh tar'

2006-06-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/23/06, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Jun 23), Nikolas Britton said: I need to backup the /data directory on hostA to /data on hostB, about 1TB of data on a gigabit link. Right now I'm using scp but the handshake latency and ssh overhead is killing me. I've

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/23/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/06/06 Nikolas Britton said: The consensus seems to be that FreeBSD/amd64 is a tad slower then FreeBSD/i386 because it has to deal with 32 extra bits. The primary reason to use FreeBSD/amd64 seems to be if you need greater then 4GB

Re: help with 'tar|rsh tar'

2006-06-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/23/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/23/06, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Jun 23), Nikolas Britton said: I need to backup the /data directory on hostA to /data on hostB, about 1TB of data on a gigabit link. Right now I'm using scp

bug in systat: ifstat?

2006-06-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
Look at the Totals column (gmail may wrap it): /0 /1 /2 /3 /4 /5 /6 /7 /8 /9 /10 Load Average Interface Traffic PeakTotal lo0 in 0.000 KB/s 0.000 KB/s9.446 KB

Re: help with 'tar|rsh tar'

2006-06-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/24/06, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Jun 24), Nikolas Britton said: On 6/23/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks!, but I got rsh going. I first had to edit /etc/hosts.equiv, after that I figured it out: tar cf - . | rsh 192.168.1.242 'cd

Re: place to obtain 4.11 install ISOs

2006-06-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/25/06, D G Teed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I cannot locate 4.11 installer CD ISOs. The mirror says they are moved to the archive FTP site, but they are not in that site, at least not as an ISO. Anyone have a hint/tip? Why 4.11? Why not 6.1? Anyways:

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/28/06, Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Atom Powers writes: Yes. All the servers I'm installing this year will have SATA drives (and 3ware RAID controllers). The Western Digital Raptor drives are every bit as good as the SCSI drives I used to get. Perhaps as the ones you used

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/28/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [deleted] --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net Do you offer Xen hosting Chad?.. and back on topic... What's the point of iLO Marc? What's wrong with having your server text

Re: Raid card for FreeBSD

2006-06-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/28/06, Sam Wun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I will host a mail server in FreeBSD 6.x. Since we are going to use Raid for mirroing, can anyone please recommend a RAID CARD that is fully compatible with FreeBSD? I found the following RAIDCARD sounds good, what is your opinon about it?

Re: Frustration

2006-06-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/29/06, Fernando Pinguelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing to you because I need to vent. I have tried installing version 5.3 of FreeBSD on a Pentium III machine. I thought I succeeded in doing it so, but when I tried to build xOrg I realized that I did not have all the ports

Re: I dont know the frequency rates of my screen

2006-06-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/30/06, Saul Mena Avila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to configure X11 but I don't know the frequencies of my monitor (a laptop). The doc. of the laptop doesn't says anything about the specifications of the screen. Is there any utility I could use to figure it out? Thanks. You can

Intel PRO/1000 PT

2006-07-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
What are the difference between the Intel PRO/1000 PT Server and Desktop Adapters? Intel PRO/1000 PT Server Adapter: $130 ~ 150 Intel PRO/1000 PT Desktop Adapter: $40 ~ 60 Both use the i82572EI chip and both appear to use the same PCB. Would I be correct in assuming it's a marketing scam to get

Re: freeBSD binary

2006-07-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/1/06, Dark Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hai i know tat this is a silly question... but i just wondering can openBSD binary run in FreeBSD Well we have: options COMPAT_43 options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 options COMPAT_FREEBSD5 options COMPAT_LINUX options

Re: batching port builds

2006-07-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/30/06, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 30/06/06 David J Brooks said: If you do 'make -DBATCH' instead of 'make' - you will use the preset defaults for each port with options. Or you can do 'make config-recursive' - which will offer you all the

Re: another newbie

2006-07-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/2/06, jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 7/2/06, Isaac Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to UNIX but know the basics of getting around, writing simple shell scripts, etc. Is there any way to use a short perl program as a shell script?

Re: Intel PRO/1000 PT

2006-07-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/3/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What are the difference between the Intel PRO/1000 PT Server and Desktop Adapters? Intel PRO/1000 PT Server Adapter: $130 ~ 150 Intel PRO/1000 PT Desktop Adapter: $40 ~ 60 Both use the i82572EI

Re: Intel PRO/1000 PT

2006-07-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/3/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7/3/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What are the difference between the Intel PRO/1000 PT Server and Desktop Adapters? Intel PRO/1000

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD 6.1... Question

2006-07-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/3/06, Kevin Cortez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a Compaq Precario desktop with an amd 64bit athalon, and an SATA 200gb drive (No Raid Support). When i first tried to install FreeBSD the installation froze which I was able to fix by disabling APCI. Then I hit a problem agian. The

Re: Port for Perl modules

2006-07-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/14/06, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if I asked this before, but does anyone know if there is a port for the following Perl modules: 1) Net-SMTP-SSL 2) Bundle Libnet http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=p5stype=all -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/

Re: Port for Perl modules

2006-07-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/15/06, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 7/14/06, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if I asked this before, but does anyone know if there is a port for the following Perl modules: 1) Net-SMTP-SSL 2) Bundle Libnet http

Anyone with Xeon 5100s yet?

2006-07-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
Anyone have feedback on the new Xeons and the 5000p/v/x chipsets? Is Xen working with VT (Vanderpool)? SSE4 support?, chipset funkyness? fast? stable? anything? I'm tired of waiting for Socket F Opterons w/Pacifica. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/

Areca RAID Card.

2006-07-22 Thread Nikolas Britton
The motherboard I just bought, SuperMicro X7DBE, has both PCI-X 133MHz/64-bit and PCI-Express 8x slots, I can't decide what version of the Areca card to get... I'd like to see some benchmarks of the ARC-11xx (PCI-X) Vs. the ARC-12xx (PCI-Express). The PCIe device has a faster bus (PCIe 8x =

Re: I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server; recommendations?

2006-07-22 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/22/06, Dan Bikle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it turns out that ordering a computer from Walmart was a mistake. They sent me the wrong computer. I don't understand why. The item listed in my online order was clearly different than the item printed on the packing list attached to the

Re: Areca RAID Card.

2006-07-22 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/22/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 22, 2006, at 4:14 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: The motherboard I just bought, SuperMicro X7DBE, has both PCI-X 133MHz/64-bit and PCI-Express 8x slots, I can't decide what version of the Areca card to get... I'd like

Re: Areca RAID Card.

2006-07-22 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/22/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/22/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 22, 2006, at 4:14 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: The motherboard I just bought, SuperMicro X7DBE, has both PCI-X 133MHz/64-bit and PCI-Express 8x slots, I can't decide

Re: Slow Write Performance on 3ware controller

2006-07-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/22/06, Richard Collyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Completely ignore me. Write caching wasnt turned on. Even with write caching off you should be able to hit 50MB/s... did I missing something? Try running 'diskinfo -t /dev/diskname'. For refrence here are the numbers from my single 400GB

Re: Slow Write Performance on 3ware controller

2006-07-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/23/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/22/06, Richard Collyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Completely ignore me. Write caching wasnt turned on. Even with write caching off you should be able to hit 50MB/s... did I missing something? Try running 'diskinfo -t /dev/diskname

Re: Slow Write Performance on 3ware controller

2006-07-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/23/06, Richard Collyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 7/22/06, Richard Collyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Completely ignore me. Write caching wasnt turned on. Even with write caching off you should be able to hit 50MB/s... did I missing something? Try running

Re: Slow Write Performance on 3ware controller

2006-07-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/23/06, Richard Collyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: That would be unacceptable in my book. Whats the load on the system? Is the 3ware 9500S in a regular PCI 33MHz/32-bit slot? Motherboard/CPU? The motherboard is an Intel N440BX running 2 PIII 600MHZ (feel the power

Re: Areca RAID Card.

2006-07-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/22/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/22/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/22/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 22, 2006, at 4:14 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: The motherboard I just bought, SuperMicro X7DBE, has both PCI-X

Re: Slow Write Performance on 3ware controller

2006-07-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/23/06, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 23 July 2006 06:04, Richard Collyer wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Would moving the top card to the bottom slot and putting the 9500S-12 in the top slot screw with FreeBSD in anyway or will it just accept the changes and keep

Re: Slow Write Performance on 3ware controller

2006-07-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/23/06, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 23 July 2006 11:27, Nikolas Britton wrote: IBM Deathstars, not so fond memories of those drives. indeed. i was lucky to have bought mine several months before their quality dept took a nose dive. 2 of those drives are still

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/24/06, Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted, On 24/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All you have to do to see this is try booting FBSD 6 on a 80386 and compare it's performance to FBSD 3.X on a 386. How are you going to do that, Ted? From the 6.0R release notes:

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/24/06, Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas, On 24/07/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would be like running Windows 3.1 on a brand new Xeon 5100 dual-core CPU... sure it will run fast* but what the hell are you going to do with it? Play solitaire? You have

Re: What FreeBSD users really want

2006-07-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
What I (a FreeBSD user) really want: * Xen v3.x dom0 support. * Xen v3.x domU support. * Stable File System. * A Faster, then Linux, File System. * File system journaling so I don't have to fsck a 2TB array. * Drivers for even more SAS/SATA RAID Controllers. * A system that fully supports (no

Re: What FreeBSD users really want

2006-07-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/22/06, Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing I wish I had learned so much sooner was set autolist in my .cshrc. I didn't know it was there, and I have no idea why it is not in the default dot.cshrc file. No doubt good reasons, but I got by for months before I found this out.

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/25/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Oops, forgot about that. Use 5.x then. The statement is that newer versions of FreeBSD are slower than older versions. The point was that this isn't relevant to 90% of users for reasons I

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/26/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Tamouh H. wrote: On Jul 25, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: ICP Vortex is an Adaptec company and Adaptec doesn't support FreeBSD. We've already been over this once. Not to disagree with you, but Adaptec put

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/27/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Nick Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/27/06, jan gestre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/27/06, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-07-26 18:59, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darrin Chandler wrote: Do you see that if support in 4.x had been based on open specs from Adaptec that this issue would not

Re: Promise Technology RAID Controller

2006-07-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/27/06, PATRICK CARTER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I was looking at getting a hardware RAID controller (that supports RAID 5) for my system and I saw the FastTrak SX4100 from Promise Technology. I didn't see FreeBSD listed under their list of supported operating systems and I was

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/26/06, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a hard question to ask and I realize that there are a thousand answers to this question. I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose a window

Boot and Install from USB?

2006-07-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Floppy and CD-ROM drives, why do I need them? They take up to much chassis real estate and I never use them after the server is in production. Why can't I do all this stuff with USB? If I got a USB flash, USB CD-ROM, and/or a USB floppy drive what could I do with it? * Boot into DOS to run BIOS

Re: Boot and Install from USB?

2006-07-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/28/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 27, 2006, at 11:32 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: Floppy and CD-ROM drives, why do I need them? They take up to much chassis real estate and I never use them after the server is in production. Why can't I do all this stuff

Re: Boot and Install from USB?

2006-07-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/28/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/28/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 27, 2006, at 11:32 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: Floppy and CD-ROM drives, why do I need them? They take up to much chassis real estate and I never use them after

Re: Teletronics wlan 200mW card supported under 5.x?

2006-10-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 10/16/06, Gordon Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone got the Teletronics XI-325HP 200mW PRISM 2.5-based PCMCIA card to work under freebsd 5.4, which I currently run? or 6.x? The Teletronics XI-325HP 200mW PRISM 2.5-based PCMCIA card is high on my list of possible cards with

Downloading files from -CURRENT, How?

2006-10-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
I'm trying grab a copy of /usr/src/sys/dev/sound and /usr/src/sys/modules/sound from HEAD so I can MFC a few things. I tried this, but it didn't work: $ more current-supfile *default host=cvsup12.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr/src/HEAD/var/db *default prefix=/usr/src/HEAD/usr *default

Re: Downloading files from -CURRENT, How?

2006-10-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 10/22/06, Patrick Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: I'm trying grab a copy of /usr/src/sys/dev/sound and /usr/src/sys/modules/sound from HEAD so I can MFC a few things. I tried this, but it didn't work: $ more current-supfile *default host=cvsup12.us.FreeBSD.org

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:33:18AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/08/a-shadow-lies-upon-all-bsd-distributions -

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Peter Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, January 09, 2007, at 02:38PM, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why then? Are you guys ever going to do something about Xorg DRI/DRM for Radeon cards, Java, and Flash support? More importantly: Why is another project's

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know about some of the items, but... -Flash support with Mozilla products is being done through Mozilla's ActionScript Engine: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200611/110706Mozilla.html. So, I expect the latest

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Andreas Rudisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:08:45 +0100, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why then? Are you guys ever going to do something about Xorg DRI/DRM for Radeon cards, Java, and Flash support? More importantly: Since when is Xorg a part

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You shouldn't! If you are that taken back - you certainly don't need the issues of a project that does not deliver on it's promises. On the other hand - feel free to use Microsoft's products because we all know that they tend to keep promises AND, as a

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, 9 January 2007 at 17:08:45 -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/9/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:33:18AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD is created and supported by volunteers. Seems like you just posted a nice list of things for you to get busy and contribute. I don't have time to contribute work, I have a business to manage as well as other obligations that come

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fbsd needs SAN support before it can cope with virtualization..virtualization requires a lot of disk..spindles..and FCP/iSCSI is a great way to drive this condensation. I mean..when you have to read this list, and see people wonder which end of a

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